$280000 in Grants Given to 'Inspiring' Groups Helping Inland Empire Latino Community

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Jesse Melgar, a board member of the Riverside, Calif.,-based Weingart Foundation, and several Latino community leaders wanted to do something to improve the lives of Latinos in the Inland Empire, and they've done just that with a $280,000 grant to 25 Latino-led organizations.

The CIELO Fund at the Inland Empire Community Foundation, or CIELO, received 110 submissions from nonprofits in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during the initial application period, and awarded grants ranging from $5,000 to $20,000 to organizations focused on economic mobility, educational equity, civic engagement, health equity, and immigrant services, the Press-Enterprise reports.

"Our Latino community is in so many ways thriving and giving so much to our economic, cultural, and community resilience, but CIELO stands to remind us of so much more work to be done," says the foundation's president and CEO.

Melgar, who co-founded the CIELO Fund with the Weingart Foundation and is also a board member of the Ontario-Montclair Promise Scholars program, tells the Press-Enterprise that the grant money will be used to create economic opportunity for Latinos in the region, as well as to support positive narratives about the Latino community in the media.

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